James Pepin Named Clemson's CTO, Director of HPC

Dec 15, 2006 | James Pepin of the University of Southern California has been named Clemson University's chief technology officer (CTO) and director of high performance computing. He will begin his duties in February...
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BlueArc Reports Record Sales

Dec 15, 2006 | BlueArc Corporation, a network storage provider, has announced the company's recently-concluded fiscal quarter achieved new sales records for the firm, delivering year-over-year growth of nearly 100 percent. On the back...
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Bull to Deliver 43-Teraflop System to CCRT

Dec 15, 2006 | CCRT (Centre de Calcul Recherche et Technologie), the Center for Research and Technology Computing in France, has awarded Bull the contract to build a supercomputer delivering in excess of 43 teraflops. The system will be made available for the scientific and industrial communities to use in major areas of research, particularly aeronautical engineering, energy, life sciences and environmental research.
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BMW Sauber Unveils New Supercomputer for Automotive Design

Dec 15, 2006 | The BMW Sauber F1 Team has unveiled its new 12-teraflop supercomputer to be used for Formula 1 automotive design. Albert2, revealed on Thursday to international media representatives in Hinwil, is Europe's fastest machine used in the industry. The system is based on Intel processors and will be employed by the team for computational fluid dynamics workloads.
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IBM Selects Universities for Cell BE Research

Dec 15, 2006 | Ten universities spanning multiple geographies have been chosen as winners of the latest IBM Shared University Research (SUR) awards. For the first time, each of the universities will be using the Cell Broadband Engine technology to enable students and faculty to drive innovation, collaborate and foster skill development in the creation of digital media, software platform performance and medical imaging solutions.
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John Rollwagen Named Chairman Of SiCortex Board

Dec 15, 2006 | SiCortex, a Linux cluster startup company, has announced that high performance computing executive John Rollwagen has been elected chairman of the board. Rollwagen, who served as chairman and CEO of...
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Itanium Solutions Alliance Commits $100K to Gelato

Dec 15, 2006 | The Itanium Solutions Alliance has announced a $100,000 sponsorship of the Gelato Federation, a global technical community dedicated to the advancement of Linux on Intel Itanium architecture. The partnership is...
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'Zeke' Supercomputer Boots Up at UL Lafayette

Dec 15, 2006 | Zeke is plugged in at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and ready to deliver economic benefits to the university and the state. Zeke, UL Lafayette's computing node...
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Hitachi Moves Into HPC Storage Market

Dec 15, 2006 | Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, has announced major moves that it claims will enable its rapid expansion into the global high-performance computing storage market. These moves, backed by an investment in...
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AMD and IBM Collaborate on 45nm Process Technology

Dec 15, 2006 | This week at the International Electron Device Meeting (IEDM), IBM and AMD presented papers describing the use of immersion lithography, ultra-low-K interconnect dielectrics, and multiple enhanced transistor strain techniques for...
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Researchers Close In On Terahertz Transistor

Dec 15, 2006 | Scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have again broken their own speed record for the world's fastest transistor. With a frequency of 845 gigahertz, their latest device is...
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Alchip Unveils First Silicon of 512-Core Chip

Dec 15, 2006 | In collaboration with the University of Tokyo and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Alchip Technologies, a fabless ASIC company, has announced its first silicon success of the SING processor for GRAPE-DR, a next-generation supercomputer design that is targeting a performance goal of two petaflops. The SING chip features 512 CPUs with over 60 million logic gates and 10 million bits of SRAM.
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2007 Predictions of Superconductivity-Based Breakthroughs

Dec 15, 2006 | Low-cost MRI machines, super-fast Internet routers, and high-capacity power lines top the list of likely breakthroughs in the field of superconductivity in 2007, according to a 'Top-10' forecast list released...
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Cray Plans XT3 Technical Workshop

Dec 15, 2006 | Computational scientists using the Cray XT3 architecture -- and those interested in the XT3 -- will gather in Nashville for three days in February to exchange their knowledge and experience.

CITI Celebrates 20th Anniversary

Dec 15, 2006 | On December 7-8, 2006, the Computer and Information Technology Institute (CITI) at Rice University celebrated its 20th anniversary with a technical symposium that attracted a stellar collection of experts in...
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CCT Director Outlines Business Value of HPC

Dec 15, 2006 | Supercomputing is no longer something that benefits only computer scientists but is an essential part of advancing all types of business and spurring economic development.

NIST Explores New Circuitry Shrinking Technology

Dec 15, 2006 | The bull's-eye solution to the semiconductor industry's hunt for more exact means to measure the relative positions of ever-tinier devices squeezed by the millions onto silicon chips might be new...
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Argonne's William Gropp Recognized by the ACM

Dec 15, 2006 | William Gropp has been named a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The ACM Fellows Program recognizes outstanding members for their achievements in computer science and information technology...
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DRC Names New Chief Operating Officer

Dec 15, 2006 | DRC Computer Corporation, maker of reconfigurable coprocessor systems, announces the addition of Michael D'Amour to the company's executive team. D'Amour will serve as chief operating officer, overseeing product development and...
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Yes, Even You Should Care About Being Able To Write Well

Dec 15, 2006 | If you are a scientist or engineer who thinks being able to write well is not important for your job, read this article. John West tells us why writing is one of the most fundamental skills for all technologists.
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Shibboleth-FastLane Interoperability Demoed

Dec 15, 2006 | The Internet2 community has demonstrated the interoperability of its Shibboleth federated identity management software with the National Science Foundation's (NSF) FastLane online grant administration system. The interoperability demo is the...
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Cray Offers 7.5 Million Shares of Common Stock

Dec 15, 2006 | Cray Inc. has announced that it has priced its public offering of 7,500,000 shares of common stock from the company at a public offering price of $10.00 per share. The...
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AMD Taps Mario Rivas as EVP Of Computing Products Group

Dec 15, 2006 | AMD has announced that Mario Rivas has been promoted to executive vice president of Computing Products Group (CPG). In this role, Rivas will be responsible for driving the development, strategy...
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DataDirect Networks Opens Japan Subsidiary

Dec 08, 2006 | DataDirect Networks Inc. has announced that the company has opened a fully-owned subsidiary in Japan, DataDirect Networks Japan. The subsidiary will provide sales, marketing, training and technical support to its...
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Australian Researchers Demo 6 Gbps Wireless Link

Dec 08, 2006 | On Thursday, researchers from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in New South Wales, Australia will demonstrate the fastest and most efficient wireless link ever achieved. The CSIRO...
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